Numbering-machine.



F. SANDER. NUMBBRING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. l, 1908.

Patented Jan, 26, 19.09.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK SANDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN NUMBERING MACHINE OOM- PANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

N UMBE RING-MACHIN E Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK SANDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Numbering-Machines, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

This invention relates t numbering machines, more particularly that type of machine known as a typographic machine. The typographic machine is one adapted to be locked up with type and to have its number wheels advanced automatically upon the successive movement of the plunger.

The object ofthe invention is to provide an improved machine which will be simple to manufacture, readily accessible for cleaning, and eilicient in operation.

The scope of my invention will be pointed out in the claims.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aFside elevation of a machine constructed according to my invention with the side plate removed. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 with a side plate in place. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 3 3 Fi 1. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view, partly bro (en away at the corners to show the side plate engagement. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line 6 6 Fig. 6, showing the number slide locking pin. Fig. 6 is a section of a part of the plunger head at right angles to Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is an end view of the case or frame with the plunger case removed. Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the inner side of the plunger and plunger case. Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 7 with the rocking arm in place. Fig. 10 is a transverse sectional view of the plunger case with the plunger shown in side elevation, but partly broken away. Fig. 11 is a perspective view of the rocking or operating arm. Fig. 12 is a perspective view of the main case or main frame. Fig. 13 is aplan view of the number slide. Fig. 14 is a perspective view of one of the side plates.

As shown in the drawings, the machine consists of a main frame 1, of general U shape, having opening 2 at each end thereof for the main shaft 3 of the number wheels. The right hand vertical section 4 of the U frame 1 is preferably provided with recesses 5 and with a dished out lower corner 6. The vertical left hand member of the U frame 1 is provided with slots 8 8, and with proj ecting lugs 9 9, two on each side of the machine with a space between each pair, each pair being provided with openings for a sta le 10, to be hereinafter described.

n the main shaft 3 of the machine there is mounted the usual pawl swing 11 with its operating awls 12 between the arms, on which paw swing the numbering wheels 13 with their ratchets 14 are freely mounted, retaining pawls 15 controlled by a s ring plate 16, having individual fingers for tile individual pawls 15 are mounted u on the frame as shown in Fig. 1. The unit wheel, the eX- treme right hand wheel in Fig. 1, has a ratchet wider than the other ratchets of the machine, and a pawl 16 having a projecting pin 17 bearing against the vertical side of the U frame is held in place against its unit pawl by a spiral spring 18 around the detaining pawl shaft 19. The pin 17 prevents any sidewise motion to the pawl 16 and keeps it always properly in place upon the unit-'wheel ratchet. The pawl swing is provided with two apertures or holes 20, into which pins 21 on the rocking arm 23 may lit as shown in Fig. 9. The rocking arm across its greatest dimension is ada ted to fit between two li s or ledges of the p unger 23, so that upon the reciprocation of the plunger the arm will be oscillated or rocked, the pawl spring operated and the number wheels advanced, as is customary in machines of this character.

The plunger 23 is preferably in the shape of a solid block having a recess opening to its lower surface containing a spring 24 while pins 25 on each side of the plunger are limited in their motion by the recesses 26 in the plunger casing 27. In a groove across the top surface of the plunger, I slip an undercut number slide 28 and I maintain it C positively locked in its position by recesses 30 in its edge. A in 31 upwardly projected by a spring 32 wi positively enga e the recesses 30 in the number slide, and ook it in any desired position.

In order to assemble the machine the plunger spring is compressed by the plunger, and the pins 25 forced into the recesses 26 when it will be found that the plunger may be tted together with its case 27 directly to the main frame of the machine. The plunger case is perforated with passages 32 1n line with the passages through the lugs 9 of the main frame, and when in the position of Fig. 1, the U-shaped pin or staple 10 may be caused to lock the parts together` either as shown in Fig. 1 or as show-ri in Fig.

3. 1n Fig. 3 theside plates 33-are shownyin place. The side plates have formed upon them a lug 34 with a central openingjanda. spring hook 85 at the opposite end. TWhen,

placedk in position upon the inachine, the spring hook 35 will engage the recesses 5 of the main frame while the lugsY 34( will' fit' between the lugs 9 on the main frame, so

that the staple 1G, ,vheniit is forced into place, will pass firsty throughthe plunger` case,l thenthrough one or the lugsQ; their through the lug 34, of the side plate, then through -tlie other lug of the main frame, and lastlythrough the plunger case mutually locking the parts securelf),T in position as shown in Fig. 3.

l claim as A my invention:

1. The lherein described typograpliicfmachine having a main frame, a shaft therefor, number wheels and their ratchets, a pawl swing and its pawls, a plunger and la plunger casino-V -b) u u 1 u reciprocate in its casing, and prov dedwith a spring said'plunger casing being adapted for attachment immediately tothe main frame, without the interpositioniof shafting or driving rods, and operating mechanism inclosed within the combinedrmain: frame and'plunger casing adapted to convert the reciprocal motion ofthe plunger to an oscil-y latory motion ofthe vpawl swing.

2. The herein described.y numbering machine, comprising a: main frame, a shaft therefor, number wheels Van'd'their ratchets, a-pawl swing and its pawls, a plunger and operating means connecting said plunger and v swing, a lcase for said plunger adapted to fit thefend of the main frame but separable from said main frame, mutually engaging lugs on the main frame and on tlie'plunger case and means forlocliing the samev together.

3. The herein described numbering ma-y chine, comprising a main frame, a shaft therefor, number wheels and their ratchets,

af/pawl swing and its pawls, a plunger and operating means connecting said plunger and swing, a case for said plunger adapted to -fit the end of the mainframe but separable from said main frame, side plates for the' machine and mutually engaging lugs lon-each side plate, main frame and case, and means,

for securing the same together.

4. r1`lie herein described numbering machine, comprising a main frame, a` shaft therefor, number wheels-and their ratchets, apawl swing and its-pawls, a plunger and operating means connecting said plunger and swing, acase for said plunger separablel from said main frame, said main frame having tv-.fopairs of duplicate lugsseparated from each other on each side thereof, said plunger case havinga recess into which thef said plunger being mounted so asf-to l from said mainl fra-me-` said lune-er case- 1 p e comprising a rec-essen portion forthe plunger,

a spring fortheplunger; recessesionfeither sideof the main recess, stop-pins insaid last-Y recessesv andv secured 'to the plunger.

6. ri`he herein described numbering' machine,` comprisingr a'- main frame, a shaft therefor, number Wheels land 1 their ratchets ,1

a-pawlswingand-its pawls, a plunger and; operating meansl connecting said phingerf and swing, alcase ifor said plunger adapted"- to fit the endof thema-inframe butseparable from said main fra-me, saidl pli'inger-fcase' comprising a recessed portion forA the plunger, asp-ringl for4 the plunger,l recesses:oiiweither side of the mainrecess, stop pinslirifsaidriastl recesses and secured `'to-the 'piungergv a-recess in the face of the plunger, tiiemainlshaft penetrating the recess, and anoperatingvarin within-the recess-and on4 the shaft-comprising a portiony of the operating mechanism.

7. rllie herein describednumbering ma chine, comprising frame, sliaftf7 Whse-lsf and their ratchets; pavrlfr swing, and itsspawls, plunger and its spring; operating mechanism connecting the plungerV andf the swing in combination-With side plates, each having ai. lugthereon, adaptedto tintoa recess-of? the machine proper, and-a pinIfor'pinningj said lug in piace, said side plate havingja. spring at the endopposite said lugfadapted to engage arecess -in lthe frame.A

8'. Av numbering'f' machine comprising' a=V shaft, Wheels, ratchets; pawl-A swing' and" pawls, plunger and spring; in'combinationA with an operating `.mechanism comprisingran oscillating arm lmounted on the shaft? on thef 115 frame and engagingthepawl swing, are-- cessin the plunger face fitting said oscillat-f exterior of the frame, a pin penetrating1 the ing arm 9J A numbering4 machine comprising a frame, shaft, number wheels,` ratchets; pawll swing and its paWls, a, plungery and its-l= spring, operating AmechanismV between the plunger and the swing, a numberslidefin the top surface of the pli'inger and' positive:V

means for lockiiigsaid number slide in place, said positive `means comprisingan undercut slot in the plu-ngerffor 'the-slide; a notchf=iny the edge of the slide, aspring pressedpin in'J the plunger adapted to `*be projected 'facrossf .the slot and engage thenotch.-`

10. A numbering machine comprising a frame, shaft, number Wheels, ratchets, pawl swing and its pawls, a plunger and its spring, operating mechanism between the plunger and the swing, a number slide in the top surface of the plunger and positive means for locking said number slide in place, said positive means comprising an undercut slot in the plunger for the slide, a notch in the edge of the slide, a spring pressed pin in the plunger adapted to be projected across the slot and engage the notch, the plunger having an opening of less diameter than the pin above the pin in the plunger.

11. A numbering machine comprising a frame, shaft, number wheels, ratchets, pawl swing, pawls, plunger and operative means between the plunger and the swing, a detaining pawl for the units ratchet, a shaft on which it is mounted, a pin projecting from the unit detaining pawl and bearing against the end of the case, a wire spring on the shaft of the unit pawl and bearing against said pin, whereby all motion of the unit detaining pawl towards the frame is prevented by said pin.

12. A numbering machine comprising a main frame, a shaft therefor, projecting through one end of the frame, a slot on each side of the shaft through the end of the frame, holes in the pawl swing opposite said slots, a pair of extending lugs separated from each other at both sides of the frame, an operating oscillating arm having two pins projecting through the slots, and engaging the holes in the pawl swing, a plunger having a recessed face in which the oscillating arm is located, a plunger case for the plunger and a spring t erein, means for limiting the motion of the plunger in the case, a recess and lugs on either side thereof in the case adapted to 'fit over and under the lugs of they frame, and a U shaped pin adapted to be inserted through the lugs of the case and the main frame.

13. A numbering machine comprising a main frame, a shaft therefor projecting through one end of the frame, a slot on each side of the shaft through the end of the frame7 holes in the pawl swing opposite said slots, a pair of extending lugs separated from each other at both sides of the frame, an operating oscillatin arm having two pins rojecting through t e slots and engaging tllie holes in the pawl swing, a plunger having a recessed face in which the oscillating arm is located, a plunger case for the plunger and a spring therein, means for limiting the motion of the plunger in the case, a recess and lugs on either side thereof adapted to fit over and under the lugs of the frame and a U shaped pin to be inserted through the lugs of the case and the main frame, side plates having lugs adapted to 'lit between the lugs of the main frame and adapted to be engaged by said U shaped pin.

Signed at New York city this 22nd day of August 1908.

FRANK SANDER. Witnesses:

F. WARREN WRIGHT, MABEL DITTENHOEFER. 

